Willow Garage is collaborating on the project with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and intelligent robot and autonomous mobile solutions provider Adept Technology. The ROS-Industrial project aims to leverage the rapidly growing community of ROS developers, SwRI's experience in transitioning technologies from the research stage to practical applications, and Adept's proven industrial automation. The project's objective is to merge the development opportunities that open-source software offers with the specific, exacting requirements of production and manufacturing, to boost innovation and make robot technologies more transparent.